Stress and Anxiety

Stress is:

• General state of the body, mind and emotions when an environmental stressor has triggered the stress response.

• Stress is excessive worry and unable to carry out daily activities.

• Stress is always bad.

• Stress is caused by both external and internal stimuli.

Anxiety is:

• General state of the body, mind and emotions when an environmental stressor has triggered the stress response.

• An emotion characterized by feelings of tensions, worried thoughts, and physical changes such as increased blood pressure.

• Anxiety lasts for a shorter period of time

• Anxiety have only psychological symptoms

Identify the list with all biological stressor

• Pain, fatigue, unemployment

• Fear, Chronic illness, handicapped

• Injury, disability, prolong illness

• Loss of loved ones, conflicts at home, exposure to cold environment

Select signs and symptoms which applies for both stress and anxiety (select all that apply)

• Anger

• Fatigue

• Insomnia

• Racing thought

• Muscle tension

What is the type of stress which has a beneficial effect on health and motivates an individual?

• Neustress

• Eustress

• Stress

• Distress

Ahmed has an exam coming up and is stressed on whether he can perform well. This is an example of which type of stress:

• Acute stress

• Chronic stress

• Distress

• Neustress

Exhaustion stage of GAS is reached when an individual's:

• Fight or flight response is activated.

• More susceptible to infection and disease.

• Body is working hard to stay at a peak level to be prepared to handle difficult, intense situations.

• Body can no longer keep up with the demands of stress.

Defense mechanism in which an individual copes with stressful or anxiety-provoking relationships or situations by retreating to an earlier developmental stage is:

• Regression

• Repression

• Intellectualization

• Displacement

Rationalization is:

• Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors

• Attributing one's thoughts or impulses to another person

• Refusing to acknowledge existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it

• Overachieve in one area to compensate for failures in another